FEATURE - 2025 TRIUMPH BONNEVILLE ICON EDITIONS - JUST BIKES

FEATURE - 2025 Triumph Bonneville Icon Editions

Words: Mike Ryan

Photos: Triumph Motorcycles Australia

Triumph Motorcycles have released details on a series of new models for 2025 called ‘Icon Editions’. Limited to selected bikes in the Modern Classics range, each Icon Edition features special paint, along with unique graphics inspired by a version of the Triumph logo first seen in 1907.

First applied in 1907, this script logo was used by Triumph until 1922.

Like the Gold Line Editions for 2022, the Chrome Collection for 2023 and Stealth Editions for 2024, the Icon Editions are defined by special paint and other unique cosmetic touches. Icon Editions will not be limited in terms of a set production number. Instead, they’ll only be available for the 2025 model year, with bikes for the Australian market due for local release this December.

“The Triumph Modern Classics have an enduring reputation for original style, high quality, premium finish and modern performance,” said Paul Stroud, Triumph Motorcycles’ Chief Commercial Officer. "It is this authenticity, coupled with the heritage and passion encapsulated in the 1907 logo, that will have broad appeal with both younger and older riders.

“With striking new paint schemes, bespoke graphics, and custom logos, the Icon Editions perfectly blend heritage, style and contemporary capability - perfect for those riders who appreciate classic style, but value modern performance.”

Evolution of Identity

After almost two decades spent selling and then manufacturing bicycles in England, German émigré Siegfried Bettmann offered his first motorcycle in 1902. By this stage, the company originally known as ‘S. Bettmann & Co.’ had been rebranded as ‘Triumph Cycle Co. Ltd.’; the name taken from one of their more popular bicycle models.

Triumph’s logo for 1902 was a rather grandiose shield design, with a fancy surround and elements that included a crown and six flags; the latter supposedly representing the six continents on which Triumphs were sold.

In 1907, with the motorcycle side of the business humming along nicely, Triumph introduced a new logo that was far simpler. The word ‘Triumph’ in Art Nouveau-style cursive script featured a flamboyant capital ‘T’ and run-on from the ‘h’ that underlined the whole word. While this logo was changed in 1915, adding the word ‘Motors’ and an laurel wreath, it’s the 1907 version that has been reproduced for the 2025 Icon Editions.

After 1915, the evolution of Triumph’s logo saw a shield-type design reintroduced in 1922, with a fancy ‘globe’ logo replacing that in 1932. The Triumph logo that most of us are familiar with, where the ‘R’ loops under to connect to the ‘H’, was first seen in 1934. Straddling both the Meriden and Hinckley eras, that logo endures this day, albeit with revisions and modifications made over the years.

Silver and Black

For the Australian market, the Triumph Icon Editions range for 2025 is limited to five models from the Modern Classics family, specifically the Bonneville T100, Bonneville T120, Bonneville Bobber, Bonneville Speedmaster and Scrambler 900.

Each model features an Aluminium Silver and Sapphire Black paint scheme that varies from model to model. For example, the Bonneville T100 features a silver tank with a contrasting black panel, while the Bonneville T120 features a black tank with a silver panel.

All Icon Editions feature the 1907-style Triumph logo in gold on the tank, with some adding further gold accents, like hand-painted coachlines. ‘Icons’ identification, in the form of a special logo, is added to the top of the fuel tank and features on the side covers of each model, too.

Paint and graphics aside, all 2025 Icon Editions are unaltered from the models they’re based on.

2025 Bonneville T100 Icon Edition

With its wire spoke wheels, hot dog mufflers and round headlight, the 900cc Bonneville T100 already has a retro look. The Icon Edition enhances this, with its gold script logo on an Aluminium Silver tank with Sapphire Black panels. Black coachlines outline these panels as well as a stripe on top of the tank that contains the ‘Icons Edition’ logo and ‘1902-2025’ identification for Triumph’s 123 years of producing motorcycles.

The tank treatment is reversed for the side covers – silver on black – where further ‘Icon Edition’ identification is added.

Mudguards are finished in Sapphire Black, with the rims, lower fork shrouds, rear springs, headlight shell and indicator shells all finished in black, too. Further complementing this colour scheme is a black engine finish and black two-up saddle with partial white piping.

Chrome and brightwork are limited to elements like the exhaust system, rear suspension caps, pegs, pedals and levers.

2025 Bonneville T120 Icon Edition

The larger, 1200cc version of the Bonneville reverses the tank treatment seen on the T100, with an Aluminium Silver accent panel on a Sapphire Black tank. The T120 also features gold tank coachlines, instead of black. The Icons Edition logo atop the tank sits in a silver stripe and is finished in black with gold text accents.

Sidecovers are finished in Sapphire Black with an Aluminium Silver panel. Within this, the model name and Icon Edition identification are added. A gold coachline around this silver panel complements the tank treatment, while mudguards are finished in Sapphire Black.

Most of the standard cosmetic features on the Bonneville T120 carry over for the Icon Editon, like a predominantly bare metal engine treatment, chromed exhausts, polished wheels, chrome mirrors, chrome indicator shells and black fork legs with gaiters.

Like the T100, springs for the T120’s preload-adjustable rear shocks are finished in black, but the saddle is in a different style, with a pleated pillion section and additional use of white piping.

2025 Scrambler 900 Icon Edition

Arguably the most elegant interpretation of the Icon Edition colour scheme, the Scrambler 900 features a Sapphire Black panel on the Aluminium Silver base that follows the line of the knee cut-outs. This and the silver top stripe are outlined in black, with the latter including the Icon Edition logo.

The offside side cover features gold and silver text on a black base, but the Scrambler 900’s high-mount exhaust makes incorporating the model name and Icon Edition identification a bit of a squeeze. The nearside cover is finished in silver on a black base and features subtle, etched ‘Scrambler 900’ identification.

The rest of the Scrambler 900 aesthetic includes Sapphire Black rims and mudguards, black fork legs with gaiters, a black headlight shell and black shells for the modern tail light and indicators. Engine finish is mostly black, while the gold exhaust headers pick up on the retro tank logo.

Bare metal springs for the twin shock rear end, black mirrors and a bare metal handlebar also feature on the Scrambler 900, while the saddle is finished in black and includes a suede top section.

2025 Bonneville Speedmaster Icon Edition

The cruiser in the Modern Classics range, the Speedmaster Icon Edition features a predominantly Aluminium Silver finish for the tank, with Sapphire Black in the knee cut-outs and top stripe. Both are outlined in black, while a subtle black drop shadow on the gold Triumph tank decal gives it a little more impact.

Sidecovers are finished in Aluminium Silver with Sapphire Black panels, again outlined in black. ‘Speedmaster’ and ‘Icon Edition’ are in silver, with ‘Bonneville’ in gold in this application. Treatment is the same for both side covers.

Beyond this, the Bonneville Speedmaster Icon Edition features polished rims and spokes with chunky cross-section tyres. The 1200cc twin gets a predominantly bare metal finish, which along with the chromed exhaust, chrome pillion grab rail, pegs, headlight trim, mirrors, pegs and other details, add to the bling of this model.

Sapphire Black features on the mudguards, while the black fork legs, swingarm and saddle help the chrome and silver parts pop.

2025 Bonneville Bobber Icon Edition

Where the Speedmaster Icon Edition is predominantly silver, the Bobber Icon Edition is predominantly black, with a treatment for the tank that’s virtually the reverse of the cruiser – Sapphire Black with an Aluminium Silver top section.

Hand-painted gold coachlines on the tank are repeated on the Sapphire Black side covers with Aluminium Silver panels. As with the other Icon Editions, identification for this special model features on the side covers and atop the tank.

The Icon Edition retains much of the Bonneville Bobber’s existing blackout aesthetic, with Sapphire Black mudguards, black rims, black fork legs (with gaiters) and a black swingarm. A mostly black treatment for the 1200cc parallel twin is broken by a bare metal finish for the exhaust and selected other details.

Black handlebars, levers, mirrors and pegs continue the theme, while the black solo saddle gets a bare metal base.

Aus Arrival and Pricing

Australian delivery of the 2025 Triumph Bonneville Icon Editions is due to commence from December, with pricing for each carrying a premium of between $900 and $960 over the standard equivalent.

As mentioned, Icon Editions won’t be limited in number, but will only be available for the 2025 model year, after which time they will not be repeated. Additionally, Triumph’s Australian distributors say local allocation will be restricted.

For more details and to place an order for any of the 2025 Icon Editions, see your Triumph dealer.

Australian pricing for the 2025 Bonneville Icon Editions is as follows: